Singlet oxygen oxidation of pyrroles. Formation of 5-substituted derivatives
β Scribed by Harry H. Wasserman; Mingde Xia; Jianji Wang; Anders K. Petersen; Michael Jorgensen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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β¦ Synopsis
The ten-butyl ester of 3-methoxy-2-pyrrolecarboxylic acid 3 undergoes reaction with singlet oxygen to form an intermediate imino hydroperoxide 4. This hydroperoxide may be trapped by a variety of nucleophiles yielding 5substituted pyrroles 6. With strong nucleophilic substituents at the 5-position, these pyrroles may add to unreacted hydroperoxide 4 to form bipyrrole-like products 7.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Substituted pyrrole derivatives are prepared by treatment of 2,3-dihydrofuran derivatives with trifluoroacetic acid. These in turn are obtained by Michael addition of carbon nucleophiles of the b-dicarbonyl type to N-(4-toluenesulfonyl)-N-(tertbutyloxycarbonyl)-dehydroalanine methyl ester.